Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 572 Support ([-])

"Bang! Bang!" There was a volley of gunshots, and there were screams of death one after another not far away.This is the school yard outside Taixing County, Yangzhou Prefecture. Soldiers on the east bank are executing the death penalty.The prisoners who were executed included the county magistrate Li Mou appointed by the Qing court, the county official Qian Mou, and the regiment commander Sun Mou. , for them, the east coast people are naturally merciless.

"One person masters the Tatar, the whole family suffers!", "Forgetting the ancestors for many classics, and wearing the monkey crown!" A blond Estonian east bank soldier recited the propaganda slogans to the surrounding Taixing County people in Chinese with a Liaodong accent. The Taixing native with shaved hair and easy clothes looked at this guy with dull eyes, not understanding why he was so excited because of his perverted eyes.

But their interest is obviously not here. When they saw an east bank officer in a raincoat walking towards the death row prisoners tied to the wooden pole with a pistol, they immediately became excited: "The foreign tartars go up and make up for it!" Knife!"

The east bank officer who was checking the prisoner's life and death paused slightly when he heard the name "foreign tartar".However, he quickly adjusted his mood and carefully checked the situation of the prisoners who had already experienced a round of gun baptism.Those who shot just now were all the recruits of the third brigade of the Standing Squad who used muskets for the first time, and coupled with the poor accuracy of muskets, it is not unusual for some of these people to slip through the net.

The east bank officer in a raincoat seemed to have vented his anger at being called foreign tartars on them. Every time he found one who was still panting, he shot his head, flying brains and blood splashing all over the place. He took off the whale gut raincoat on his body, but he didn't take it seriously, and continued to examine the next prisoner carefully, which made people shudder.

"The Gushan Ezhenzhun Pagoda of the Qing court led [-] banner troops to Huai'an Prefecture, and there were more than [-] Han army banners in Gaoyou Prefecture. The leading generals did not know, but they were suspected to be subordinates of Shi Tingzhu's troops stationed in Yangzhou. The subordinates are ashamed, these The small officials of the Qing government don’t know what to ask, and if you want to get more accurate information, you have to capture some high-ranking officials in the Qing army.” Kurhan, the captain of the security team, has a little bit of Chinese skills now, and the words he speaks are also better than those of others. I used to be fluent a lot.

"It's nothing, we're going to find them soon anyway." Mo Ming, who was watching the execution with a saber, said indifferently, "Taixing is a small county, and there is not much oil and water. Next, let's march westward and meet Jiangdu County for a while. Shi Zhangjing (Shi Tingzhu) of Yangzhou City. I heard that Mr. Shi is "many in nature and sensitive in situations". The soldiers under his command are also leaders in the Han army banner. Shouldn't we meet these "heroes"? Moreover, I have always heard that Yangzhou is rich and prosperous, Master Shi has been in charge of Yangzhou for more than a year, and I think he has a lot of money, but now that the East Bank is in financial difficulties, I am afraid that I have to ask Master Shi to borrow some money."

Kurhan stared blankly at Mo Ming, as if he didn't understand what he was talking about, was he praising Shi Tingzhu?

Seeing his silly expression, Mo Ming immediately lost the desire to continue talking. He patted the back of Kurhan's thick neck and said angrily: "Go and rectify the team. Let’s carefully investigate the movement of the Qing army in the direction of Taizhou, Jingjiang, and Jiangdu, and hunt and kill all Qing army scouts, trying to make them deaf and blind.”

It is said that Kurhan's security team has now expanded to 300 people, including soldiers from the natives of Sakhalin Island, hunters from the wild Jurchen tribes on the Amur River, and a few spies from the cavalry team of the Shun Army.Mo Ming treats them as personal guards, and the treatment is naturally excellent. Money and women can get whatever they want, and they are very popular.However, he also took a close look at these simple-minded savages, and he was very persistent in his daily training. He often carried out cross-country training in mountains, and often sent them to Liaodong by boat to play with the Qing army. trick.The lessons of the rapid degeneration of the Eight Banners soldiers in history are too profound. Mo Ming does not want the most elite force at hand to degenerate quickly in a good living environment.

Kurhan responded, and then quickly went down to allocate the manpower.The direction of Jingjiang (to the east) basically doesn’t need much attention. The county town was evacuated by people from the east bank the year before last, and now it’s not very populated. .

As for Taizhou in the north, Kurhan's people found some clues. There was a green battalion of more than a thousand people stationed there, who seemed to be Zuo Menggeng's subordinates.Zuo Menggeng's troops were extremely poor in combat power. Before Zuo Liangyu died, he had planned to enter Huguang, but when he heard that the Shun army was coming, he was so frightened that he ran away. What is the use of the green camp?Well, it is also useful when collecting taxes.

What needs to be taken care of is the west side.It's a pity that Taixing's people are all rural people, and they are completely blind to the situation in Yangzhou City. Some people say that there are "ten thousand real Manchurian officers and soldiers" there, and some people say that there are only "several thousand Han soldiers". army", and some people even said that there were "[-] green battalions" there.After the interrogation, the people on the east bank also gave up, and simply inferred and investigated by themselves. At worst, be careful when moving forward, keep a good distance between each department, and move in slowly.Now the main force of the Qing Dynasty should be in the south of the Yangtze River. There are tens of thousands of green battalions in the Jiangbei area, and they are scattered everywhere. How can they compete with the people on the east coast?

This time it took several days to land at the junction of Taixing and Jingjiang, and it took another day or two to capture Taixing City. At this moment, I am afraid that the entire Yangzhou Prefecture and even the Huaian Prefecture to the north have already received the yellow-clothed thieves. There's an incoming warning signal.If we don't act quickly, those wealthy businessmen, landlords and officials of the Qing court may transfer their properties again, so that the people on the east coast will still make a lot of money!Just like here in Taixing County, a county town only seized more than 1 taels of silver and more than 2000 stones of rice and grain. Such a harvest is very disappointing.

You must know that the last time the native land wrote a letter saying that it was in financial difficulties, and asked Mo Ming to send some silver back to the native land for emergency relief. Mo Ming had already followed the instructions and sent 20 taels of silver back, which was much more than the 10 taels requested by the native land.But the problem is that the local finances are difficult, and my Heishui area is also very difficult financially. Now there are a lot of troops here, and the military pay they have to pay every year is more than 47 yuan, which is about more than 50 taels of silver.This financial burden is extremely heavy. Fortunately, the navy's military salary is paid by the mainland to Jinshan Port. Otherwise, I am afraid that the finances here will go bankrupt immediately.

After gritting his teeth and sending 20 taels to the mainland this time, the silver deposits in the bank of Heishui Port have dropped to less than 70 taels, which is enough to pay for one year's military expenses.Moreover, although those black soldiers do not receive military pay, but now they want to let them go into battle, they have to pay ten or eight yuan, which is tens of thousands of taels. In short, the finances here are also very poor ah.The second brigade of the stand-up team will soon be re-established (the original second brigade has been transferred back to the mainland), and the extra two thousand soldiers will have to fill in a small 10 taels of silver a year. There are more words.Oh, by the way, there is also the silver that is bought from North Korea and Japan every year. These two sums add up to 34 taels of silver, which is also a big hole.All in all, the Blackwater Pioneering Team is also very poor now, and if they don't come out to play Grass Valley, they may not be able to sustain it next year.

On May 1647, 5, 1 soldiers from the army on the east bank stationed in Taixing County after a day's rest, and transported the looted supplies, personnel, and livestock to the transport ships moored on the shore. After leaving the county seat, follow the road to Jiangdu County in the west.They walked cautiously along the way, the horse scouts came and reported non-stop, and the orderlies shuttled back and forth between the ministries to pass orders, in short, everything seemed to be in order.After all, except for the 2500 people in the four squadrons of the third brigade, the people here have at least been on several battles and won battles, with high morale and experience. Difference.

Five thousand soldiers and eight thousand North Korean masters were in the middle of the army. They drove more than 100 heavy-duty freight wagons from the east bank with shock-absorbing springs and bearings, and more than 600 ordinary mules made in the Ming Dynasty. Horse carts, more than 500 North Korean ponies, and more than 800 donkeys and mules carried a large amount of water, fodder, ammunition, and camping equipment (even including a small amount of cement and logs) for a field march.The Standing Team, the Eight Banners New Army, and the East Coast Army walked in the wheat fields on both sides of the road in turn, trampling the growing wheat seedlings in a mess. It seems that it is difficult to harvest again this year.

The cavalry led by Lieutenant Yang Mingyang has now expanded to more than 1 people, and has been officially renamed the First Cavalry Regiment.At this time, except for the 2 veterans from Poland who were still fully armed and guarded, the other 1000 members of the First Cavalry Wing took off their armor and packed them on horseback. They are reluctant to ride their own horses.

It is said that after several years of uninterrupted transportation by people on the east coast, there are currently forty or fifty European horses raised on the Halla Mountain Ranch in Jeju Island.Among them were about twenty Andalusian horses, fifteen Lusitano horses, and seven or eight Turkmen horses. People from the coast will also bring some Mongolian horses to breed, so as to improve the heavy war horses suitable for cavalry riding on the east bank.Many of these mixed-breed horses have been bred, but veterinarians are still observing further, and then continue to breed, in order to come up with endurance, load-bearing and sprinting horses.

But these are all things for the future. At least for now, the east bank cavalry can only ride Mongolian horses to march and fight.The Polish cavalry could only silently put away their cool armor and lances, and then use light cavalry tactics to fight like a Tatar.

On May 5, after crossing the canal at a slow pace, the slow-moving troops on the east bank finally arrived under the blue-gray city walls of Yangzhou. At this time, the latest information came back: Gaoyouzhou, Taizhou, The Qing armies in the Xinghua and Baoying areas are joining forces, but so far there has been no reinforcement of Yangzhou City.

(End of this chapter)